Merce Cunningham The Modernizing of Modern Dance

Name: Merce Cunningham The Modernizing of Modern Dance
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ISBN: 9780415965743

ISBN-10: 0415965748

ISBN-13: 9780415965743

Edition: 2004

Authors: Roger Copeland

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A complete study of the life and work of this seminal choreographer/dancer. More than just a biography, the author explores Merce Cunningham's life story against a backdrop of an entire century of developments in American art.

Book details

List price: $145.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 1/9/2004
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 328
Size: 6.46" wide x 9.33" long x 1.02" tall
Weight: 1.408
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



from Graham to Cunningham: An Unsentimental Education



Portrait of the Artist as a Jung Man



Beyond the Ethos of Abstract Expressionism



The Limitations of Instinct



Contemporary Classicism: Re-Discovering Ballet



Primitive Mysteries



The Sound of Perceptual Freedom



Cunningham, Cage, and Collage



Dancing for the Digital Age



Re-Thinking the Thinking Body: The Gaze of Upright Posture



Modernism, Post-Modernism, and Cunningham



Fatal Abstraction: Merce Cunningham and The Politics of Perception



Dancing in the Aftermath of 9/11


Index